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C H A P T E R  6

Preparing to Install Standalone CGTP With the Reliable Boot Service on the Solaris OS

To provide standalone CGTP nodes with Reliable NFS and the Reliable Boot Service, install the Foundation Services on a two-node cluster. You can use the nhinstall tool, or manually install and configure both the standalone node and the cluster nodes.


Note - Because diskless nodes are not supported for use on Linux, the information in this chapter applies only to the Solairs OS.


The following sections describe the main requirements for the installation. For further information about the hardware and software requirements, see the Netra High Availability Suite 3.0 1/08 Foundation Services Installation Guide and the Netra High Availability Suite 3.0 1/08 Foundation Services Manual Installation Guide for the Solaris OS.

For a list of the main hardware and software requirements, see the following sections:

Installation Server Requirements

You require an installation server to install the Netra HA Suite product. An installation server enables you to install the Solaris Operating System and Netra HA Suite software on the cluster by using the Solaris JumpStarttrademark software.

The installation server requires the following:


Hardware requirements

  • UltraSPARC® platform

  • Two network devices:

    - One network device connects the installation server to an external network.

    - The other network device connects the installation server to the cluster network.
Operating system Solaris Operating System
Software requirements Perl Version 5, which is available with the Developer Solaris Software Group.
Disk capacity Minimum 1.5 Gbytes for a Solaris software distribution

This size does not include applications that you might want to deploy on the cluster.
Free space Minimum 1.5 Gbytes after the Solaris Operating System has been installed

To connect the installation server to the cluster and the standalone nodes, see Connecting the Nodes.

Cluster Node Requirements

The hardware and software requirements for the two-node cluster to be installed with the Foundation Services are as follows:


Hardware requirements

  • Two Netra servers

    For example, Netra T1 servers.

  • Two Ethernet switches

  • A terminal server to manage the consoles
Operating system Solaris 9 or 10 Operating Systems
Software requirements

  • The Solaris distribution

  • The Netra HA Suite software distribution

Standalone Node Requirements

The hardware and software requirements for the diskless nodes to be installed with standalone CGTP are as follows:


Hardware requirements

  • Two Netra servers

  • Two Ethernet cards
Operating system Solaris 9 or 10 Operating Systems
Software requirements The following CGTP packages and patches from the Netra HA Suite software distribution:

  • CGTP patches. Note: For exact patch numbers, see the Netra High Availability Suite 3.0 1/08 Foundation Services README

  • SUNWnhas-cgtp package, CGTP kernel drivers and user-space components for the Solaris 9 and 10 OS

  • SUNWnhas-common package, Foundation Services common components

  • SUNWnhas-common-libs package, Foundation Services common libraries

  • SUNWnhas-diskless-standalone package, Foundation Services standalone diskless support

Connecting the Nodes

Connect the nodes as shown in FIGURE 6-1.

FIGURE 6-1   Connecting the Standalone Nodes to a Two-Node Cluster

Illustration shows how to connect the nodes, terminal server, and switches.




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